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The REAL face of Henry VII? Experts to scan 500-year-old effigy head
He was the first Tudor monarch, the king who vanquished Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. So when Henry VII died in 1509 after suffering from gout and asthma, he was fittingly buried in ...
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Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
Henry VII was the only child of Edmund Tudor ... that of the king being particularly lifelike and probably from a death mask. His funeral effigy was 6 feet 1 inch tall with the body made of wood, with ...